Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-23 16:05]: >> What's the output of "date" in the chroot? > > Ah, yes. The year is 2037. > >> In the code, it computes the difference between the system date as >> pdfTeX sees it and the filedate 2005/12/01, and seems to find that >> it is more than 5 years... > > Does such a check make sense in a distro?
No, but why should we patch the upstream sources? It would just be another source of errors, and the single bugreport we get per year doesn't do much harm (but helps the reporter a bit...) Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
